Meet the next great American Auto company.... Honda!

"For the first time since building its first Accord in Marysville, Ohio, Honda exported more U.S-made cars than it imported from Japan in 2013.

The automaker exported 108,705 U.S.-made Honda and Acura vehicles last year while importing 88,537 vehicles from Japan to the U.S.

"In 2013, nearly 95% of the vehicles Honda and Acura sold in the U.S. were produced in North America, including factories in Alliston, Ontario, and El Salto, Mexico. Honda will open another plant in Celaya, Mexico, next month to make its Fit subcompact.

So 95% of all Hondas are now made in the Americas and more hondas are EXPORTED from America than any other place including Japan. Yup, Honda is now "American". Argue it all you want. Honda (and Toyota for that matter) are now as american as Apple pie, Sushi fusion, and Chrysler.

Well, Toyota overtly used to try and pout their, "American-ness" before the acceleration debacle. People were so close to believing it. Good thing for GM, too, otherwise the news would of been nothing but idiot doom-sayers yabbing about how GM is going bankrupt 24/7.

As for Honda, good for them. I remember back in the 80s, when the company tried to move their HQ to the US. In Japan, they are the smallest of the, "Japan 3," by a long shot. Toyota is almost half the market there, and Nissan a third. Honda is only about 10%, last time I checked. Honda probably thought they were going to get crushed as a Japanese company. But that country has...? 9? 10? known automotive companies?

The real beneficiary is Mexico - everybody wants to build there, now. All those free trade agreements across the Americas makes Mexico an ideal hub of manufacture, it seems.
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Actually its funny you say this as years ago the CEO of Honda threatened to move the headquarters to the US as well. I know I would love if Honda were based here in North America. They are a great car company! They also truly believe in developing engineering talent.

¿DeQuandary?:"For the first time since building its first Accord in Marysville, Ohio, Honda exported more U.S-made cars than it imported from Japan in 2013.

The automaker exported 108,705 U.S.-made Honda and Acura vehicles last year while importing 88,537 vehicles from Japan to the U.S.

"In 2013, nearly 95% of the vehicles Honda and Acura sold in the U.S. were produced in North America, including factories in Alliston, Ontario, and El Salto, Mexico. Honda will open another plant in Celaya, Mexico, next month to make its Fit subcompact.

So 95% of all Hondas are now made in the Americas and more hondas are EXPORTED from America than any other place including Japan. Yup, Honda is now "American". Argue it all you want. Honda (and Toyota for that matter) are now as american as Apple pie, Sushi fusion, and Chrysler.

To be fair, it doesn't say Honda exported more vehicles from the Americas than any other place including Japan. It just says it exported more from the U.S. than it imported from Japan to the U.S. I'm sure there are still more exports total from Japan than the U.S., but they go to other countries.

Honda isn't like "American Apple pie" and recent factory and investment has been in Mexico. Honda is important and is the second foriegn company supplier of jobs behind Toyota.
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jshaw31:Well, Toyota overtly used to try and pout their, "American-ness" before the acceleration debacle. People were so close to believing it. Good thing for GM, too, otherwise the news would of been nothing but idiot doom-sayers yabbing about how GM is going bankrupt 24/7.

As for Honda, good for them. I remember back in the 80s, when the company tried to move their HQ to the US. In Japan, they are the smallest of the, "Japan 3," by a long shot. Toyota is almost half the market there, and Nissan a third. Honda is only about 10%, last time I checked. Honda probably thought they were going to get crushed as a Japanese company. But that country has...? 9? 10? known automotive companies?

The real beneficiary is Mexico - everybody wants to build there, now. All those free trade agreements across the Americas makes Mexico an ideal hub of manufacture, it seems.

Honda hasnt traded off their super reliable power train for economics of scale. Their engines are still literally double the reliability of the next closest guy, which is Toyota. So I cant fault them for sales. Besides, Honda does quite a bit of other things outside of autos these days, so it's a pretty neat and rounded company.

jshaw31:Well, Toyota overtly used to try and pout their, "American-ness" before the acceleration debacle. People were so close to believing it. Good thing for GM, too, otherwise the news would of been nothing but idiot doom-sayers yabbing about how GM is going bankrupt 24/7.

As for Honda, good for them. I remember back in the 80s, when the company tried to move their HQ to the US. In Japan, they are the smallest of the, "Japan 3," by a long shot. Toyota is almost half the market there, and Nissan a third. Honda is only about 10%, last time I checked. Honda probably thought they were going to get crushed as a Japanese company. But that country has...? 9? 10? known automotive companies?

The real beneficiary is Mexico - everybody wants to build there, now. All those free trade agreements across the Americas makes Mexico an ideal hub of manufacture, it seems.

Honda hasnt traded off their super reliable power train for economics of scale. Their engines are still literally double the reliability of the next closest guy, which is Toyota. So I cant fault them for sales. Besides, Honda does quite a bit of other things outside of autos these days, so it's a pretty neat and rounded company.